Some may ask, "Why weren't you zoned properly from the beginning?" Well, you have to understand that we've never had the funding, support or resources that would enable us to do things exactly by the book. We can only use what people donate to us.

Plus, you don't know what you don't know. When you're an action taker like me, you don't sit around waiting for all the answers before you do something. That's how dreams die. I wonder how many students would have overdosed or committed suicide if I hadn't started when I did, with what I had.

I know this to be true because numerous students have said to me, "The Barracks saved my life."

Remember, I started this ministry with someone sleeping on my couch. Instead of waiting for all the money to show up before I started serving people, I just started serving people with the little that I had.

I have literally witnessed nonprofit boards sit on their butts 5 years prior to when I began, and to this day still have not accomplished anything. No thank you. I'm gonna get it done and figure it out along the way.

As we grew, we started to encounter the problems that come with success. And even though we had more revenue coming in, we also had more expenses to cover. We have simply been doing the best we can with what we have.

We never intended to violate any regulations.

But, now we're hoping to turn a new leaf, and if we had the proper support, then we could afford to do things more excellently.

It costs a lot of money to do things according to regulation. That makes it very difficult for average Joe's like me to do meaningful work on a larger scale. That's why John C. Maxwell says, "If your dream is big enough, you only have two options: Give up or Get help."